Yeah, AT&T, T-mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Cricket, and every other mobile phone network company are going to truck out cell-on-wheels, complete with generators and relay equipment, to a festival in the middle of a dried out lake in Nevada just so a couple of rubes can phone their buddies from the playa.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens

Nothing fine tunes your senses to what is happening around you like a cell-phone stuck to the side of your head....Green Jeebus, turn it off....

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge? " I am a controlled substance". Savannah.

BBadger wrote:Yeah, AT&T, T-mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Cricket, and every other mobile phone network company are going to truck out cell-on-wheels, complete with generators and relay equipment, to a festival in the middle of a dried out lake in Nevada just so a couple of rubes can phone their buddies from the playa.

Verizon and AT&T have had a temporary cell tower over by Frog Pond serving the playa during the past two events. So, yeah, your scenario is pretty accurate.

Even if there is a signal, my iPhone gets powered down and dropped into a zip lock when I leave Reno. It lives at the bottom of my hotel bag until I get back to Reno on the return trip. I don't use my cell at OCF or at the burn. I love being "unhooked" for a week.

There was a neighbor that had a satellite phone and he was offering calls home as gifts last year. I didn't take him up on it.